Barcelona has made a number of questionable transfer decisions in recent years, and one of them was involved in the Nutletico Madrid striker Julian Alvarez, who could have made the switch to Catalonia in the Metropolitano in 2024 in 2024.
Alvarez, who recently responded to his canceled penalty in the Champions League round of 16 draw against Real Madrid, has been a revelation for Atletico Madrid since his large move from Manchester City last summer. He had a tough start, but since then he has switched to 23 goals and five assists of 44 performances in all competitions.
Alvarez is expected to go to Atleti's attacking Talisman as soon as Antoine Griezmann leaves, which looks like this summer. However, his career path could have been so different, as before he came to Man City in January 2022, he could have moved to Barcelona.
As reported by Relo, Barcelona was in advanced conversations to sign Alvarez for € 22 million in the last months of 2021, but they ended that deal for signing Ferran Torres from Man City, who arrived for € 60 million. And in the end the Argentinian would replace the Spaniard in the Etihad Stadium.
Barcelona can recover that decision very well, although not as much as they would have done 18 months ago. Since the beginning of last season, Ferran has become a very important player, and he has regularly appeared with important goals – in particular he is productive from the bank for Hansi Flick's side during the current campaign.
Alvarez is a player who now wants to have Barcelona for sure, especially because they will soon have to replace Robert Lewandowski, who will come to the end of his career. Atletico Madrid will certainly not be open to selling them, so they missed the boat in this respect.